Meetings of Interest in the Week Ahead

All the meetings this week are happening in the first two days. After that, the approach to the long weekend and the holiday that marks the unofficial end of summer is meeting free.

• Today, Monday, August 27, the Common Council Fire Committee meets at 5:30 p.m., followed by the Police Committee meeting, which meets at 6:00 p.m. Presumably both those meetings will take place in the Council chamber at City Hall, since there is no indication that they will take place at another location.

It seems after-parties are becoming de rigueur for Council meetings. Last week, Rebecca Wolff invited people to the Half Moon after the regular Common Council meeting and announced the after-party would be a recurring event. Tonight, SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) is inviting people to gather at the Spotty Dog after the Police Committee meeting. The invitation to the event on Facebook features the image above of Chief Ed Moore at the July Police Committee meeting, holding up a firearm that was confiscated by the HPD, and provides these details: "Show up to the Police Committee meeting. Share your views on recent happenings and policy ideas. Afterward, join SURJ, Councilmembers Kamal Johnson and Calvin Lewis, Council President Tom DePietro, and Supervisors Linda Mussmann and Michael Chameides at Spotty Dog for informal discussion and socializing."

• Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 28, the Hudson Development Corporation (HDC) meets at noon at 1 North Front Street. HDC is still in the process of selecting new members for its board. Gossips has learned that eleven people had expressed interest in serving on the HDC board. (The bylaws indicate the board can have a minimum of nine members and a maximum of fifteen; there are currently nine.) Four of the eleven are being recommended by the nominating committee to the full board, and two of those four people will be interviewed by the full board on Tuesday.
• At 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 28, the Tourism Board meets at the FASNY Museum of Firefighting, 117 Harry Howard Avenue.
• At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 28, the Greenport Planning Board meets at Greenport Town Hall, 600 Town Hall Drive. There are two projects of interest to us Hudsonians before the Greenport Planning Board. The first is the proposal to construct a new retail center on Fairview Avenue and Healy Boulevard, which would have Aldi's as its anchor and McDonald's as its centerpiece. At the last Planning Board meeting, the developers were told that the Gothic Revival house known as "The Pines" had been deemed eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and they were asked to propose new plans that incorporated the building into the design rather than demolishing it. The agenda for Tuesday night's meeting indicates that the applicant "has deferred until the September meeting."

The other project before the Greenport Planning Board that Gossips is following is the proposal by East Light Partners to site solar arrays on Route 9 and adjacent to the grounds of the Dr. Oliver Bronson House. That project will be coming before the Planning Board tomorrow night. The agenda notes: "New plans submitted. Email from National Grid, and letters from Olana and Scenic Hudson attached."

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